S7 Priority starts cooperation with charitable foundations

30.09.2015

S7 Airlines, a member of the oneworld® global aviation alliance®, within the S7 Priority frequent flyer programme announces the start of cooperation with the Children’s Charitable Foundation «Obiknovennoe Chudo». The foundation became the first partner of the programme.

From the 1st of October S7 Priority members will have an opportunity to help children, who are under care of the foundation, to get to places of medical treatment or rehabilitation. To do this the member should transfer collected miles from his/her account in the loyalty programme to the Charitable Foundation «Obiknovennoe Chudo».

Miles transferred will be used to issue air tickets for S7 Airlines flights, so that children under care of the foundation and their accompanying persons could get to specialized health care facilities to receive medical treatment or rehabilitation needed.

“S7 Airlines already provided air tickets to different children’s charitable foundations, when there was a need for flights to places of medical treatment. Now there is a special charity programme, in which S7 Priority members can participate sharing their miles in order to provide help for children. In the near future large foundations will join the S7 Airlines charity programme”, Natalia Nikolaeva, S7 Priority Loyalty Programme Development Director, noted.

Employees, volunteers and donors of «Obiknovennoe Chudo» help families with seriously ill children. In addition to targeted financial aid the foundation operates several charity programmes aimed at social and physiologic adaptation and rehabilitation of families with disabled children. Schools for special children and their parents, specialized sport clubs and drama groups help children to have a full-fledged life to the greatest possible extent.

During its existence the foundation provided help to more than 3 000 families with disabled children, millions of rubles were transferred to children under care of the foundation in Tomsk and Tomsk Region.

In order to transfer miles to the Foundation «Obiknovennoe Chudo» from the S7 Priority account, you can use your Personal Profile at www.s7.ru, section “Customer support”, choose “Charitable Foundation” as the message subject and specify the name of the foundation and the number of miles to be transferred. Or you can refer to the Loyalty Programme Service Centre at 8 800 700–9010.

S7 Airlines ("Siberia" airlines brand, www.s7.ru) is a member of the oneworld® global aviation alliance.

The airline has a wide internal route network, created on the basis of air transport hubs in Moscow (Domodedovo) and Novosibirsk (Tolmachevo). S7 Airlines also performs regular flights to countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, the Near East, Southeast Asia and countries of the Asia-Pacific region.

In 2007 the company received an official IATA certificate as an IOSA (IATA Operational Safety Audit) operator, becoming the second air carrier in Russia to have successfully passed the full international audit procedure for compliance with operational safety standards.

S7 Airlines is one of the most reliable airlines of Russia, it implements latest achievements of the world's industry in passenger services and develops its own services dynamically.

Today S7 Airlines has the newest and one of the most modern aircraft fleets on the Russian air transportation market .All airline's flights are operated on aircrafts of the world's leading producers - Airbus and Boeing.

S7 Airlines was a multiple winner of the Wings of Russia National Aviation Awards in different categories. The airline was also the winner of the annual "People's Brand/Brand No. 1 in Russia" Award.

S7 Airlines was a multiple winner of the Cannes Lions advertising festival awards for implemented projects, and My Planet National Awards for discoveries in travel sphere.

The airline is a member of the S7 Group of companies. In 2014 Group member airlines carried 10.066 million passengers.

«Obiknovennoe Chudo» was first established as a charitable event in 2006 by the Tomsk television company TV-2. Two years later this traditional event gave rise to an independent organization - Children’s Charitable Foundation «Obiknovennoe Chudo», its employees together with non-indifferent volunteers, donors and parents help families with seriously ill children.